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The Renaissance of Etching
The first comprehensive look at the origins and diffusion across Europe of the etched print during the late 15th and early 16th centuries The etching of images on metal, originally used as a method for...
Golden Prospects
Daguerreotypes of the California Gold Rush
A fresh, comprehensive, and critical look at the California gold rush through the lens of the daguerreotype camera The California gold rush was the first major event in American history to be documented in...
Yves Zurstrassen
Free. 2009–2019
The recent work of Belgian abstract artist Yves Zurstrassen is explored in depth in this handsome volume, designed in close collaboration with the artist himself The decade of work produced between 2010 and...
Young Bomberg and the Old Masters
Reflecting on the vitality of the past, through the works of one of Britain’s most audacious 20th-century painters The British painter David Bomberg (1890–1957) was among the most precociously talented...
Cloth that Changed the World
The Art and Fashion of Indian Chintz
The story of India’s exuberantly colored textiles that made their mark on design, technology, and trade around the world Chintz, a type of multicolored printed or painted cotton cloth, originated in India...
Rachel Harrison Life Hack
“The work of the sculptor Rachel Harrison is both the zeitgeist and the least digestible in contemporary art. It may also be the most important, owing to an originality that breaks a prevalent spell in an art world of...
Second Careers
Two Tributaries in African Art
An important investigation of the complicated relationship between canonical African art and the practices of contemporary African artists Recognizing the second lives of historical African artworks when...
Edward Hopper and the American Hotel
Using recreated itineraries, travel along with Edward Hopper on his various road trips and encounter hotels, staff, and guests as seen through the artist's eyes The painter, draftsman, and illustrator...
The Eternal Feast
Banqueting in Chinese Art from the 10th to the 14th Century
An overview of Chinese culture, particularly visions of life and the afterlife, told through feast imagery from three historically transformative dynasties Feasting was an important social and ritual...
Off the Wall
American Art to Wear
Exploring the origins and lasting significance of a dynamic, subversive, and interactive art form This is the first publication to consider art to wear, also known as wearable art, as a discrete American...